Improvement in band-cutters for threshing-machines



s. CARTMEL.

Band Cutter.

Patented July 6, 1869.

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Letters Patent life. 92,162, dated July 6, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN BAND-CUT'IE'RS FOR 'IHRESHING-MACHIIBIES.

The Schedule referred to these Letters Patent niakingpart of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SANFORD Ohmimn, of Henry, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful 1mprovemcnts in Band-'Outter for Threshing-Machines, and I do hereby. declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making a portion of this specification, in which-- 7 Figure l is a top plan or view of iny invention, attached to the ordinary chute to a threshing-machine. fi Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view on-the line was,

Similar letters of reference'indicate corresponding parts in'both figures.

This invention has for its object to furnish a device for cutting the bands of gave-ls as they pass into the cylinder of the threshing-machine, and so arranging and sitnating the cutter that it may not be liable to become entangled with the straw.

-The invention consists in a shaft arranged transversely with and below the chute, and carrying on its sides projecting knives or cutters, extending up through the chute, so that in ,revolvin r they will cut the bands,

and at' the same time the s aftbe so situated as to not be liable to entanglement with the straw.

To enable others to understand the construction and operation of my invention, 1 will proceed to describe it with reference' to the drawings.

Letter A represents the ordinary chute of a threshing-machine--top view at fig. 1, and vertical section-a view at fig. 2.

Letter 0 is a shaft, transversely with, and carried in suitable hearings on the under side'of chute A.

B is a pnlley on the end of shaft 0, to which motion is transmitted from thecylinder, by means of a belt.

represent slots in the bottom of the chute A.

D 'D' represent knives or cutters, attached at one endto'the shaft" 0, and projecting upwards through the slots H H, as the shaft 0 is rotated.

The manner of operating my invention is deemed obvious from the drawings.

The pulley B being rotated by the belt from' the cylinder of the-machine, the knives D will cut the bands of all gavels passing over them. At the same 1 time the shaft 0, being situated below thechute, cannot, in any case, become entangled in the grain or straw.

Having thus described my invention, 7 What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The shaft 0, with knives B, when arranged transversely with and below thechute A, the knives D operating through the slots H H, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

Signed, at Galesburg, Illinois, this 16th day of March, 1869. v

- SANFORD OARTMEL.

Witnesses: v

P. R. RICHARDS, J. B. HARSH. 1 

